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ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM CQUNTY, N. C. JUNE 26, 1919
VOL. XL NO. 47.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS J)FTHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South,
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic
Six de-Haviland planes left Ellitife
ton field, Houston, Texas, under their
own power for the Mexican border for
observation purposes. Six more
planes are to leave later, and an en
listed personnel of 150 men is to be
sent to El Paso by rail.
Two train robberies and thirteen
bank hold-ups was the criminal re
cord admitted by Gordon Fawcett
Hamby, alias J. B. Allan, awaiting
trial in New York City for the murder
of two men when he robbed a Brook
lyn savings bank. Seated in his cell,
he told the remarkable story of his
crimes in an impersonal and dispas
sionate tone, closing it with a declara
tion that he had no further interests
in life except to be executed as speed
ily as possible.
Arrested at Huntsville, Ala., with
two other soldiers and brought to
Nashville, Tenn., Howard Moore, 22
of Mobile, Ala., winner of three medals
and eleven citations for bravery, con
fessed that he and his companions
were the men who tied a local taxi
cab driver to a tree and took posses
sion of his automobile. Moore served
overseas with the 115th infantry for
eighteen months. He spent eight
months in the first line trenches.
Uneasiness for the safety of Amer
ican citizens in northern Mexico is
felt in El Paso. Because of the expe
dition by United States troops into
Mexico to disperse Villa's forces at
tacking Juarez, it is feared Villi and
his men will attempt reprisals upon
American persons and property in
the north of Mexico.
Mormon officials in El Paso and
in Juarez are much concerned over
reports that Villa is heading toward
Casas Grandes. Chihuahua. This is
near the Mormon colony of Colonia
Dublan, where many Mormon fami
lies live.
Several American mining companies
in Mexico have ordered their Ameri
can employees to leave for the bor
der as soon as possible.
Two thousand Yaqui Indians havj
been sent to Parral by Gen. Manuel
Diguez, to reinforce that town, which
was captured by Villa's forces on Eas
ter morning.
Reports from Juarez that bitter feel
ing existed between Americans and
Mexicans is denied by American Con
sul General Edward A. Dow, who said
he had been courteously treated.
General Cabell's statements here
that the expedition to Juarez was a
closed incident has been accepted at
its face value and no further devel
opments are anticipated.
Washington
Wilson admitted that the labor con
ditions in the peace treaty had been
weakened, but the American Federa
tion of Labor, in session at Atlantic
City, endorsed them, nevertheless.
Arrest of 6,000 Chinese students at
Fucbow by Chinese and Japanese
military authorities is said in offficial
circles in Washington to have resulted
from the anti-Japanese boycott grow
ing out of the decision of the peace
conference on the Shantung ques
tion. The menace bomb outrages still
hangs over the county in the belief
of officials of the department of jus
tice. William J. Flynn, chief of the
department's bureau of investigation,
said that he believed there were more
"bombs to come," but said it was im
possible to say when the next attempt
to create a reign of terror by ex
plosions might be made.
General hearings looking toward a
general revision of the tariff will be
started by the house ways and means
committee soon after July 4, Chair
man Fordney of the committee an
nounces at the close of hearings on
tha request of the potash and dye
industries for protection.
.Announcements Is made tha. Sec
retary Baker has authorized the re
cruiting of 26,450 men fi r service on
the Mexican border. Tney will re
place men who enlisted for the emerg
ency and now eligiale for discharge.
Particulars of the action of the
United States troops in crossing the
border at Juarez to protect the lives
of American citizens, nave been pub
lished in the Mexican City newspap
ers without editorial comment. A
resolution to interrogate President"
Carranza on the action of the Ameri
can forcetf was said to have received
practically no support in the cham
ber of deputies. i
Eats a Thousand Bugs.
A cliff swallow will eat a thousand
flies, mosquitoes, wheat-midgets - or
beetles that injure fruit trees in a day
and therefore are to be encouraged,
says the American Forestry associa
tion, of Washington, which is con
ducting the nation-wide campaign
anion? school children for bird-house
building. This bird is also known as
the cave swallow because It plasters
its nest on the outside of a barn-or
other building up under the eaves.
Colonies of several thousand will build
their uests together on the side of a
cliff. These nests shaped like a flat
tened gourd or wnter-bottle are made
of bits of clay rolled into pellets and
lined with straw or feathers. This bird
winters in the tropics.
Spray Painting Corrugated Steel.
The corrugated steel used for air
plane hangars In this country and over
seas was painted before shipment.
Owing to the large quantity of steel,
it was out of the question to do this
work by hand and machines could, not
be used on account of the corrugations,
lor thie renson, a spray system of
Doom of the daylight savins- Irtniim
rated as a war measure, was pro-
nouncea by congress, both senate and
nouse adopting by overwhelming votes
measures to terminate operation of
me jaw wben the period of summer
time ends next October 2fi Th hmiso
following three hours' debate, by a
vote of 233 to 132, passed a bill to
repeal tne law on the last Sunday in
next uctober, but rejected an amend
ment to make the repeal effective at
once, ine senate, by a vote of 56
to 6 after brief discussion added a
rider to the agricultural aDDroDria
tion bill providing for repeal of the
daylight measure on the same date
nxea by the house bill
German dye interests barred from
ranee and England, look to America
ror disposal of their large surplus out
put manufactured during the war. Jos
eph H. Choate, Jr.. counsel for the
Chemical Foundation, Incorporated,
told the house ways and means com
mittee in urging a licensing system
for the protection of the American
dye industry. "Something has to be
done to save the dye industry, and
tariff alone won't do it," he declared.
Under a resolution introduced bv
Representative Fitzgerald, Democrat,
Massachusetts, congress would "pro
test against any league of nations
mandate over Mexico being given
to Great Britain and express the feel
ing that the United States is amply
able to take care of any situation that
may arise in the neighboring territory
or Mexico." The resolution was sent
to the foreign relations committee.
Establishment of a boat line be
tween Mobile, Ala., and the west
coast of South America within the
next few weeks, was announced by
Assistant Director of Operations Tay
lor, of the shipping board, after con
ference with representatives of the
Mobile chamber of commerce. The
delegation declared that at the post of
Mobile there is cargo enough everv
sixty days to fill 45 additional ships.
The board will also hear the claims of
New Orleans and several other South
Atlantic ports.
Provision in the army appropria
tion bill for maintenance of an armv
of 400,000 officers and men during
the next fiscal year was tentatively
agreed on by the senate military sub
committee. The house bill, which was
before the committee, reduced the
size of the temporary army of 509,
000 officers and men reauested bv the
war department to 300,000. Considera
tion of the bill was virtually complet
ed.
"The Mexican government considers
as closed the incident brought about
by the crossing of American troops
into Mexican territory." said a state
ment issued here by General Can-
dido Aguilar, President Carranza's
confidential ambassador to the United
States. Announcement was made by
the state department that American
officials in Mexico had made strong
representations to the Mexican gov
ernment for the protection of Ameri
cans in the disturbed areas of that
country.
With few dissenting votes, the sen
ate naval committee decided to Tec-
ommend an increase in the naval avia
tion fund for 1920 from $15,000,000 to
$35,000,000, as requested by Secre
tary Daniels.
European
The definite provision for Germany's
admission to the league of nations,
which is made in the revised treaty,
is, oddly enough, tucked away in a
section dealing -with the disarmament
of Germany.
Capt John Alcock and Lieut. Arthur
W. Brown,, the airmen who made the
first non-stop flight from North Amer
ica to Ireland, were entertained at a
luncheon at the Hotel Savoy in Lon
don by the Daily Mail, at which the
trans-Atlantic prize of $50,000 offer
ed by the newspaper, was presented to
the aviators. It is announced that
the king has conferred the order of
the knigh tof the British empire on
Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown.
The demonstration against members
of the German peace delegation, ap
parently had its inception in the
crowd's interpretation of some gesture
by a German typist or secretary as
a provocative act. The throwing of
stones and bricks which struck the
two Germans, occurred as the auto
mobiles of the Germans passed
through Chesnay, Roquencourt and
Bailly, suburban points, on their way
to the railway station at Noisy-el-Roi.
Unrest among Canadian soldiers in
England because of continued post
ponement of homeward sailings
culminated in an attack by 400 Cana
dians on the Epsom police station.
Several policemen were wounded, one
so seriously that he died. The pur
pose of the attack . was to release a
Canadian soldier who had been ar
rested. To avoid further trouble, the
police released another Canadian in
whom the mob was not interested.
During the last few days there has
been trouble In the Canadian camp
at Whitley where the soldiers burned
huts and did other damage, according
to reports.,
painting was employed. First, the
sheets were coated with red lead be
fore being corrugated, and after that
they received a coating of green on
one side and gray on the other side,
applied by means of a jet 14 Inches
wide. Scientific American.
- Prehistoric Weapons.
A French writer not long ago visited
an ancient village In the Marne de
partment, far from railways and un
disturbed by the great war. In this
village he found that the cure had
a" wonderful collection of prehistoric
tools and weapons. "Some big battle
probably took place here between two
Important tribes." said the collector.
"Every turn of the plow brings up flint
weapons." The coMectlon. 10.000 speci
mens In all, included even a razor
made of flint. The cure's cottage was
heaped toi the ceilings with these cu
rios, which he had devoted the leisure
of a lifetime to collecting. Outlook.
' New York World special says Italy
plans to meet acute coal situation by
demanding fuel from Germany as la-
demnlty.
SENATOR
SIMONS
OUT ON WAR PATH
USURPATION OF LEGISLATIVE
AUTHORITY BY 'DEPARTMENTS
AND BUREAUS MUST STOP.
COTTON PRICES ENDANGERED
Hereafter Action by Any Department
Calculated to Hold Down or Lower
Prices Will Be Looked Into.
Washington. Senator Simmons fill
ad his ammunition bag with hand
grenades and went after officers of
government bureaus that are med
dling with cotton. The war trade
board aroused his ire.
Senator Simmons served notice on
the floor of the senate that the usur
pation of legislative authority by ex
ecutive departments and bureaus had
to cease.
One of the particular things which
aroused the senator, was a report
that Germany is, at this tim, very
anxious to purchase, immediately
upon the signing of the peace treaty,
a very large amount of cotton, per
haps as much as one million five hun
dred thousand bales. According to the
report, one of the executive depart
ments or bureaus contemplated issu
ing certain orders that would restrict
Germany's purchase of cotton to small
quantities at a time, at .periodical
dates.
Senator Simmons is determined
that hereafter any action of any
department calculated to hold down
the price of cotton and restrict the
freedom of trade in this great south
ern staple, shall be subject to the
closest scrutiny and any unauthorized
attempt to lay restrictions upon the
cotton market should be called
promptly to account
At the conclusion of Senator Sim
mons' speech, in a colloquy which he
had with Senator Fletcher, of Florida,
it was disclosed that in the matter ot
freight rates between American porta
and the foreign ports the South Atlan
tic States are very grossly discrlmi
nated against. Senator Simmons'
dander is up.
AN APPEAL FOR PROTECTION
AGAINST SECRETARY DANIELS
Washington. President Henry
Breckenridge, of the Navy league, ap
pealed to Sherman Butler, of the
house committee on naval affairs, for
protection for his organization against
Secretary Daniels. In a lengthy letter
he replied to an attack made on the
league by Mr. Daniels two weeks ago
"We are imbued with no malice
against Mr. Daniels," said Mr. Breck
enridge, "but following out the in
alienable American right of petition,
we do petition, so far as you may be
able to protect us as American citi
zens from the unjust application of
the power of an official of the execu
tive arm of the government, who by
all our traditions is a servant of the
people and not a master of the peo
ple." WASHINGTON RECEIVES NEWS
WITH PROFOUND SATISFACTION
Washington. News that the Ger
man delegation had been instructed to
sign was received by officials here
with profound relief and satisfaction
Reports , of violent dissensions among
the various Germna elements and ol
powerful influences working to com
pass the rejection of the treaty, even
at the cost of an entente military oc
cupation of Germany, had caused ap
prehension in some quarters that
even at the last moment the negotia
tions might fail.
GERMAN SIALORS SHOT
BY THEIR OWN OFFICERS
Thurso, Scotland. German sailors
were shot by their own officers when
they attempted to obey the commands
of the British officers to return to
their ships and shut the seasocks.
This statement was made by Lieuten
ant Nuttall, of the steamer Alouette,
who reached here from Scapa Flow.
SENATE ADDS $40,000,000 TO
AIR SERVICE APPROPRIATION
Washington. Taking up the $888,-
000,000 annual army appropriation bill
and continuing its consideration at a
night session, the senate tentatively
approved an appropriation of $55,000,-
4)00 for the army air service, an in
crease of $40,000,000 over the amount
voted by the house.
Although the army bill was under
consideration little progress was
made, action upon many committee
amendments being deferred.
44 HOUR WEEK FOR WORKERS
IS PRESENT MECCA OF LABOR
Atlantic City, N. J. The American
Federation of Labor at the closing ses
sion here of its annual convention,
Pledged itself to obtain a general 44
hour week for workers in all crafts
throughout the United States and foi
employes in the government service
The demand was based on a determin
ation to prevent unemployment, which
the delegates delcared is one of the
two primary causes of industrial un
rest SIXTY ARE REPORTED DEAD A8
RESULT OF RECENT TORNADO
Fergus"
Falls, Minn. Telephone
communication from Fergus Falls and
the nearby storm stricken territory tc
other cities in the state has been re
stored and over the telephone Adju
tant General W. F. Rhinow gave an
estimate of 60 dead from the recenl
awful tornado. ,
Work of searching the debris whicr
marks the sites of nearly 400 home;
and stores will be completed br mid
night, Qanaral BfeJaew laid.
GERMANS AGREE TO
SIGN THE TREAT?
BIG FOUR DECLINES TO AGREE
TO FURTHER ALTERATIONS
IN THE DOCUMENT.
KAISER HIISTJTAND TRIAl
100,000 American Troops Will Assist
In Invasion of Hun Territory if
Order to Advance Is Given.
Berlin.--Germany will sign" the
peace treaty of the allied and associ
ated powers. The national assembly
by a vote of 237 to 138 decided to sign.
The assembly also voted confidence
in the new government of Herr Bauer
236 to 89.
Before the vote of confldefice'VaS"
taken, Herr Bauer, the new premier,
declared that the government would
sign the treaty, but without acknowl
edging the responsibility of the Ger
man people for the war and without
accepting the obligations contained in
articles 227 to 230 In the treaty relat
ing to the trial of the former emperor
and the extradition of other German
personages.
Paris. The council of four has defi
nitely rejected the German suggestion
that further alterations be made in
the peace treaty.
The council received four notes from
the Germans, which are supposed to
have been prepared in advance and
were held to await advices from Wei
mar on the result of the meeting of
the assembly. President Wilson went
at once to the residence of Premier
Lloyd George, where the council took
up consideration of the notes.
Coblenz. More than half a million
allied soldiers in the occupied areas
are ready for a further invasion of
Germany. The troop concentration
ordered by Marshal Foch has been
completed up and down the Rhine, and
every detail has been worked out for
an advance, in the event that Ger
many does not accept the terms.
Even orders to the civilian popula
tions, printed in French. English and
German, as framed by Marshal Foch,
are ready for distribution in the dis
tricts and villages taken over by the
allies. One order in the military regu
lations says that any house from
which civilians may fire upon the
marching troops shall be burned im
mediately. Another order provides
for the requisitioning of the railways,
telegraphs, telephones and other utili
ties as well as those employed in
these services. About 100.000 Ameri
cans will move forward if the final or
der comes.
KNOX RESOLUTION HAS BEEN
POSTPONED FOR THE PRESENT
Washington. Senate leaders oppos
ing the league of nations abandoned
their plan to try for a test vote in
the immediate future on the Knox
resolution, and turned their attempts
to crystallizing sentiment behind Ellhu
Root's proposal that the league cove
nant be ratified with reservations.
The decision was taken as a fore
cast that the league fight would re
xiain in a quiescent state during the
coming week and probably until the
treaty is submitted for ratification.
League supporters have maintained
all along that they had suiffcient votes
to defeat the resolution and Senator
Hitchcock, senior Democrat of the for
eign relations committee, said he nev
er had expected that the measure
would be brought to a roll call.
"I am not at all surprised," said
Mr. Hitchcock, 'at the disastrous fail
ure of the Knox resolution. It has
disappointed its friends and divided
the Republican party."
LIFE OF NEW CABINET
DECLARED PRECARIOUS
London. Commenting on the pre
carious life of the new cabinet, once
peace is signed, the Reuter corre
spondent in Berlin says that a mere
accident or a few abstentions may at
any moment result in its defeat as the
centrist and socialists enbloc, on
which it depends, commands only 255
out of the 423 deputies.
HUN FLEET AT SCAPA FLOW
COMPOSED OF 71 VESSELS
London. When the German high
est fleet surrendered last November
and was taken to Scapa Flow, it cc-m-
(prised nine battleships, five battle
cruisers, seven light cruisers and 50
destroyers. As far as is known, all
the ships are still at Scapa Flow.
The battleships at Scapa Flow are
the Kaiser, Kaiserin, Koenig Albert,
Bayern, Markgraf, Kronminz Wilhelm,
Prlnzresrent L-uitpold, Grosser Kuer-
furst and the Frederich der Grosse.
GOMPER3 RE-ELECTED HEAD
OF FEDERATION OF LABOR
'Atlantic City. Samuel Gompers
was re-elected president of the Amer
ican Federation of Lcbor at the organ
ization's convention and was voted a
salary of $10,000 a yar. One radical
voted against the ps-election of Mr.
Gompers and a handful of delegates
set in their chairs while the rest
staged a demonstration in honor Ot
their leader who said his election vs
organized labor's answer to Its tr-
ducers and opponents.
CHICAGO MAN KILLED
BY THE BOLSHEVIK!
Vladivostok. Walter Kellerman, of
Chicago, was killed and C. H. Batch-
eler. of Kansas City and Chester Bur
of Antigo, Wis., weve captured in a
fight between 25 troops anfl 200 bol
shevik! June 12 one mile to the north
of Vladivostok.
Burt was later released having
been eiven a note saying that Batche-
ler would be freed only upon the re
lease of all bolshevik prisoners, Burt
a!d Batohelar waa being wnll treated
RESIGNATION OF
GERMAN CABINET
PREPONDERATING OPINION IS
THAT DESPITE OPPOSITION
TREATY WILL BE SIGNED.
EDERT STILL IS PRES'DENT
So Confused Is Situation That It Is
Impossible to Obtain Even a Fair
Idea of Existing Conditions.
Paris. Latest advices from Berlin
are to the effect that the German cab
inet has resigned but that temporarily
President Ebert is to retain office.
Various conflicting reports as to the
situation in Germany surrounding the
Intentions of those in high" offices to
sign or to leave unsigned the peace
treaty of the allied and associated gov
ernments are current. The prepon
derating opinion as expressed in the
numerous dispatches, however, indi
cated that, notwithstanding the fact
that there was much opposition to
them, the terms of the allies finally
would be met, even if the signature of
the treaty necessitated the resigna
tion or even removal of those at pres
ent in the high councils.
So confused is the situation that it
is impossible at present to obtain
even a fair idea of conditions in Ger
many as they really exist, but there
seems basis for the belief that it is
the intention of the Germans finally
to acquiesce in the allied demands.
President Wilson has returned to
Paris from his trip to Belgium and,
with Premier Lloyd George of Great
Britain and Clemenceau of France,
discussed both the Italian cabinet cri
sis and the German situation.
BITTER EXCORIATION OF HIS
SENATE ACCU3ERS BY PALMER
Washington. Attorney General
Palmer, at the first public hearing in
the fight to prevent confirmation by
the senate of his appointment, turned
sharply upon his accusers and boldly
charged that they were aligned with
German interests.
During the year and a half he was
In charge of the office Mr. Palmer de
clared he had been denounced by
every enemy alien and every friena
and attorney of every enemy alien in
this N country, and that in Berlin he
was characterized as the "official
American pickpocket"
Every friend of the 40,000 aliens
whose property had been seized were
attacking him, he said, because his
organization had seized enemy prop
erty and captured the German indus
trial army in the United States. It
would be shown, he told the commit
tee, that the particular charges lodged
against him were not based on the
ground that he had sold enemy plants
at too low a price, but that he had
sold them to Americans who had
turned them to profitable account
HEARINGS ON REVISION OF
TARIFF SOON AFTER JULY 4
Washington. General hearings
looking toward a general revision of
the tariff will be started by the house
ways and means committee soon after
July 4, Chairman Fordney, of ' the
committee, announced at the close of
hearings on the request of the potash
and dye industries for protection.
Statistics and data, Mr. Fordney
said, now are being assembled and
the committee proposes to go exten
sively and exhaustively into the whole
subject with a view to drafting a bill
revising the tariff m accordance with
the campaign promises of the republi
can majority in Congress.
STRIKE CUTS RAILWAY
LINES OUT OF WEIMAR
Weimar. Weimar is completely cut
off from railway communication with
all sections of Germany because of a
suddenly called railway strike. Air
planes and the telegraph are the only
means of communication. Govern
ment circles see in the strike a new
spartacan attempt against the govern
ment HAVAS DISPATCH ALSO
"CARRIES" RESIGNATION
Paris. A Havas dispatch from Ba
sel carried the same announcement
of the resignation of the German cab
inet as that received from other
sources. It was added that the minis
try would continue to direct affairs
until President Ebert had formed a
new government.
The resigning cabinet, the dispatch
stated, persisted in looking upon the
peace treaty as "impossible of execu
tion and unsupportable."
ADJUSTING DIFFERENCES
ON AGRICULTURAL BILL
Washington Senate and house con
ferees on the $36,000,000 agricultural
appropriation bill began adjusting dif
ferences failed to reach the rider
proposing repeal of the daylight sav
ing law. Agreement on the rider
was predicted with its acceptance by
the senate and house and it was
planned to seek no action in the sen
ate on the separate house bill repeal
ing the daylight measure.
REPORTED POGRAMS IN
POLAND TO BE "PROBED"
Paris. President Wilson has decid
ed to appoint a commission to inves
tigate reported pogroms in-Poland. It
will consist of seven members headed
by Henry Mtorgenthau, former am-
bassador to Turkey.
Two other members of the commis
sion will be Jews .
The appointment of the commis
sion is in accordance with requests
from the Polish and Lithuanian gov
TEACHING THRIFT
IN PUBLIC SCHOOL
IMPORTANCE OF THE MATTER
BROUGHT SQUARELY UP TO
THE SUMMER SCHOOLS.
HAVE A THREE-FOLD PURPOSE
Miss Mary Shotwell, Now With War
Loan Organization of Fifth Federal
Reserve District Now on Tour.
Raleigh.
Dr. E. C. Brooks, superintendent of
public instruction, is calling attention
of the directors of State and county
summer schools of North Carolina to
the thrift campaign in the public
schools being promoted , by the na
tional government. Letters going out
from his office emphasize the purpose
as threefold: to give the child a broad
understanding of the specific facts
and underlying principles of thrift;
to train the child in habits of conser
vation and wise use of all of his re
sources; to create through the schools
a public sentilhent in favor of thrift,
and economy.
Miss Mary Shotwell, now with the
War Loan Organization of the Fifth
Federal Reserve District, in the work
of encouraging thrift through the
schools is now on a tour of the sum
mer schools of North Carolina. She
has already had concrete examples of
how the thrift idea can make itself
felt
Tar Heels Get Diplomas.
Fifteen North Carolinians were in
cluded in the list of graduates of the
Medical College of Virginia, who re
ceived diplomas at the Academy of
Music, Richmond, Va. Seven gradu
ated in medicine as follows: John
Grady Booe, Cana; Robert Hull Court
ney, Lenoir; Amos Carson Duncan,
Bostic; Earl Eugene Pittman, Falk
land; Frank Leonard Ray, Wake For
est; Willard Milo Strickland, Wen
dell. Dental graduates were: Victor
E'os Bell, Wakefield; Rudolph Burni,
Snow Hill; Mathew Futrell, Conway;
Irby Howard Hall, Zebulon; William
Henry Lewis, Jr., Atkinson; Ernest
Fredericks Pope, Coates; Ollie Lee
Presnell, Asheboro; Thomas Avery
Underhill, Wendell.
It was announced that Charles Lee
Nance, of Peachland, N. C, and Wil
liam Clyde Oatesnf Grover, N. C, will
receive diplomas from the North Caro
lina Medical College. They have been
transferred to this city to complete
their work.
Of 93 But Eight Survive.
Major W. A. Graham, commissioner
of agriculture, has been digging into
the past again. Apropos of alumni
day at the State University, Major
Graham brought out an old autograph
The major was a member of the
class of '60 until 1859, when he went
north to finish at Princeton. He has
always kept up with his former class
mates, however.
There were 93 in the class, he said,
32 being from other States. Of the
entire number, 92 entered the Confed
erate armies. Of that group, 31 were
killed or died from wounds received
in action.
' Eight of the number are still living,
by Major Graham's record. They are:
Captain S. B. Alexander, Charlotte; R.
E. Bullock, Vance county; C. E. Gray,
Raleigh; C. H. Heigh, E. J. Hale and
O. W. Pearce, Fayetteville ; S. E. Gay,
Mississippi; E. S. Martin, Wilming
ton, and John H. Thorpe, Rocky
Mount.
Banks Show Great Gains.
A net gain in resources of $4.1,736,
077 is shown in the summary of the
condition of State banks in North Car
olina for the past year in a statement
issued by the corporation commission.
The total resources amount to $194,
992,602. The summary shows that de
posits subject to check increased $16,
506,481; time certificates of deposit
$5,617,041; savings deposits $3,861,878.
The summary shows deposits subject
to check amounting to $78,975,256;
savings deposits $30,261,031; time
certificates of deposit $20,058,400. The
total capital stock is $13,362,279, an
increase of $555,646.
Overman Park Amendment.
Senator Overman has secured the
adoption by the Senate of his amend
ment to the agricultural appropriation
bill for the allotment of $2,000,000 to
continue the purchase of land for the
Appalachian Park of Western North
Carolina. The measure insures the
continuance of the policy to perpetu
ate and develop the immense wood
land domains of Buncombe, Mitchell
and other western North Carolina
counties, whose wealth of timber and
resources invites government support
and designation.
More Recent Casualties.
Washington (Special). Names of
North Carolinians in the latest cas
ualty list of the American Expedition
ary forces are:
Private Luther. Dalton, Statesville,
died from accident.
Private Lott G. Underwood, Jones
ville, wounded severely.
Sergeant 'William James Croom,
Willard, wounded slightly.
In the "current casualties" Bulger
Jamos Rudd, of Reidsville, is reported
as having died of accident or other
causes.
Hlnes to Succeed Warren.
Washington (Special). Charles A.
Hines, of Greensboro, is slated for the
job of chairman of the Democratic ex
ecutive committee of North Carolina
as a successor of Thomas D. Warren,
of New Bern. Mr. Hines is chairman
of the Democratic executive commit
tee of Guilford county, is an able
member of the Greensboro bar and is
an enthusiastic worker in the councils
of the party. His methods and pol
icies are decidedly progressive, and it
is recalled that he ardently campions
the ciui9 M suffrage.
Farmers Buy Northern Hay.
Says a recent news service bulletin
issued at Cornell University, in New
York State, "New York has found a
strong demand for hay in the South.
Recently a company has sold in the
following cities: New Bern, N. C, La
vonia, Ga., and Rocky Mount N. C.
Other shipments have also been made
to other points."
The prices realized on the hay rang
ed from $27.50 to $33 a ton."
Now, isn't this a pretty how-to-do?
asks the extension service workers of
the State College and Department of
Agriculture. New York farmers are
selling hay in North Carolina, realiz
ing $33 a ton to themselves, with one
of the shortest growing seasons of the
United States. North Carolina, a nat
ural grass country and with an all-the-year-round
growing season, paying
New York farmers $33 a ton for hay,
when it is one of the easiest grown
and easiest handled crops that tne
State knows.
An economic study of the hay situa
tion in North Carolina reveals the fact
that though we increased our acreage
during the last three years by 150,000
acres, the acreage for 1918 was only
590,000. On this . area, 684,000 m tons
were produced, worth, according to a
recent study of this subject, $14,364,
000. In spite, however, of this in
creased acreage, this known value of
the hay crop, farmers from all sec
tions of the State import hay by the
carload.
It is true, say the extension work
ers, that good cold cash can be realiz
ed on cotton and tobacco, but what is
the use of spending this cash for food
and feedstuffs grown out of the State,
when these can be produced abundant
ly within the State. As. Dr. Knapp
has said, "the State should first buy a
ticket for home before plunging on the
otton and tobacco gamble."
North Carolina Casualties.
Washington (Special). Names of
North Carolinians in the latest cas
ualty list of the American expedition
ary forces are:
Severely Wounded 'Lieut W. V.
Bowman, Hickory; Privates W. E. Bry
son, Balsom; O. R. Holder, High
Point; Charles Watson, Trlplett; Ju-
klien Wood, Jr., Edenton; Jefferson
Pone, St Paul; Jos. Burton, Hender
son; W. E. Poindexter, East Bend; A.
L. Dixon, Haw River; J. L. S. Roark,
Grover; Wiley Williams, Wake For
est; M. G. Woodhouse, Grandy; Jas.
Barnes, Aurelian Springs; Edgar L.
Wood, Thomasville; J. W. Smith, Ra
leigh; Mack Woodie, Piney Creek.
Slightly Wounded E. P. Tolar, Fay
etteville; C. B. Teague, Granite Falls;
G. H. Fuquay, Randleman; A. L. Shue,
Charlotte; J. W. Morton, Wilmington;
W. W. Pollock, Trenton; C. A. Watts,
Tobaccoville ; E. D. Hale, Winton; W.
G. Hollingsworth, Mount Airy; R. L.
Wetherington, Kinston; C. E. Bray,
Morritt; Je-sse Wood, LaG range; Day
ton Roberson, Frosty; J. B. Mintum,
Aulander.
Died of Disease Claude H. Davis,
Ransonville.
After One Million Dollars.
North Carolina soon will be almost
$1,000,000 richer if the State Tax Com
mission succeeeds in collecting this
amount as inheritance tax from the
Reynolds estate in Winston-Salem. Ac
cording to figures submitted by the
management of the estate, the Tax
Commission is assured of about $750,
000 from the heirs of the Winston-Salem
magnate. The commission, how
ever, through special agents, is work
ing with a view of getting a million
dollars in taxes.
The Reynolds estate is valued at
$15,000,000 in the financial statement
to the Tax Commission. The commis
sion thinks the estate is worth more
than the stated value. Special agents
and the attorney of the inheritance tax
division now are working on the prob
lem of ascertaining the true value of
the estate.
Many New Nurses.
Ninety-six nurses, graduating by
hospital training schools of North Car
olina, successfully stood examinations
at Raleigh, May 26, 27 and 28, before
the State board of examiners. One
hundred and five nurses took the ex
aminations. Miss Rosa McCorkle, of Alexis, N.
C, graduate of Watts hospital, of Dur
ham, made the highest average, 95
per cent, It was stated. Miss Drusilla
Young, of Bessemer City, graduate of
Clarence Barker Memorial hospital, of
Maltimore, Md., was second.
Home Nursing Course.
Arrangements were completed at
the State College Summer 8chooI for
the offering of a 24-lessou course in
home nursing by the Summer School
and the Red Cross.
Mrs. William Grimes, president of
the Raleigh Chapter of the Red Cross,
and Mrs. C. B. Barbee, chairman of
the department of home nursing, pre
sented the plans agreed upon, togeth
er with their recommendations.
A hundred or more students at the
school have declared their Intentions
of taking the course.
New President of University.
Dr. H. W. Chase, chairman of the
J faculty of the University since the
death of Dr. N. H. Stacy, was elected
president of the University of North
Carolina, at Chapel Hill, to succeed
the late Dr. E. K. Graham. The trus
tees had been in session slnr noon,
with one hour recess for dinner ami
the election came about 8 o'clock. Sup
porters of others proposed for the
presidency turned ta Dr. Chase as soon
as the majority centered on him an
the election was made unanimous.
Payment of Pensions.
Many Confederate veterans and
wives of veterans are making inquiry
of the clerk of court' office every
week regarding pension money . ap
parently laboring under the opinion
that the new State law providing for
the payment of pension money semi
annually has taken effect Notice is
hereby given that the new law pro
vides for the payment of -pension
money next December 18 and semi
annually thereafter. No pens'on
money will be paid until that date, to
GREAT SENTIMENTS
OTTERED BY WILSON
INITIAL CRIME COMMITTED BY
THE HUNS WAS FUNDAMENT
AL IN ITS CHARACTER.
EQUALITY, NOT NEUTRALITY
Belgium Has Come Into Her Own
Through Great Valley of Suffering ,
Which She Has Passed. .:-'.
Brussels. In his address before the
Belgian chamber of deputies Presi
dent Wilson said in part:
"The enemy committed many out
rages in this war, gentlemen, but the
initial outrage was the fundamental
outrage of all. They, with insolent
indifference, violated the sacredness
of treaties. They showed that they
did not care for the honor of any
pledge. They showed that they did
not care for the independence of any
nation, whether it had raised its hand
against them or not ;that they were
ruthless In the determination to have
their whim at their pleasure. There
fore, it was the violation ot Belgium
that awakened the world to the reali
zation of the character of the strug
gle. "A very interesting thing came out
of that struggle, which seems almost
en illogical consequence. . One of the
first things that ,the representatives
of Belgium said to me after the war
began was that they did not - want
their neutrality guaranteed. They did
not want any neutrality. They want
ed equality, not because, as I under
stood them, their neutrality was in
secure, but because their neutrality
put them upon a different basis of ac
tion from other peoples.
"I honored this instinct In them,
and it was for that reason that the
first time that I had occasion to speak
of what the war might accomplish for
Belgium, I spoke of her winning a
place of equality among the nations.
So, Belgium has, so to say, once more
come into her own through this deep
valley of suffering through which she
has gone.
"Not only that, but her cause has
linked the governments of the civilis
ed world together as if instinctively
into a league of might. They have
put the whole power of organized
manhood behind this conception of
justice which is common to mankmd.
CRISIS IN ITALIAN CABINET
ADDS TO EXISTING PROBLEMS
Rome. As an addition to the uncer
tainty prevailing with regard to
whether Germany will sign the peace
treaty has com teo a crisis In the Ital
ian government to perplex the peace
conference. Failing to secure a vote
of confidence in the chamber of depu
ties in Rome on a demand by Premier
Orlando that the chamber in secret
session listen to the government's ex
planations of its foreign policy, the
Italian cabinet has followed precedent
in parliamentary affairs and resigned.
This action probably will still fur
ther complicate the work of the peace
conference, especially In straighten
ing out the tangle that long has exist
ed as regards Italy's claims to Flume
and the Dalmatian coastal region.
The vote of lack of confidence In
the government was an overwhelm
ing one, being '259 to 70. Prior to the
vote the premier in a statement to
the chamber had announced that the
various economic and financial ques
tions concerning Italy had been solv
ed or were about to be solved.
STEPS TAKEN TO PROTECT
ALL AMERICANS IN MEXICO
Washington. Stefcs to protect
American citizens in the Mexican
state of Chihuahua from possible
rebel attacks have been taken by the
Mexican government, General Candido
Aguilar, confidential ambassador from
Mexico to the United States, Informed
the state department Calling at the
department to pay his farewell re
spects to officials before going to
New York and thence to Europe, Gen
eral Aguilar expressed his satisfateloc
at the handling of the recent Incident.
FOCH CONTINUING TO MAKE
PREPARATION FOR INVASION
Paris. While the members of th
German peace delegation are still re
ported unofficially as violently oppos
ed to signing the treaty and the great
er part of the German cabinet to be
of similar mind, latest Indications are
that the feeling In Germany is tend
ing toward recognition of the fact
that the allied demands must be met
Meanwhile Marshal Foch continues
his preparations to meet any contin
gency that may arise.
KOLCHAK'S GOVERNMENT
POLICY IS ANNOUNCED
Omsk. M. Poplaieff, new minister
of the interior for Admiral Kolchak's
Russian government, in an Interview
said :
"Until we reach Moscow our pro
gram of social reform cannot yield
fruit, nor can any constructive work
be achieved while Soviets rule. Oar
policy must, above all, concern the
peasant farmers, who are the coun
try's backbone, and the bulk of the
population.
DYE INDUSTRY ENDANGERED
THROUGH GERMAN SURPLUS
Washington German dye interests,
barred from France and England,
look Co America and China for dis
posal of their large surplus output
manufactured during the war, Joseph
H. Choate, Jr., counsel for the Chemi
cal Foundation, Incorporated, told
the house ways and means commit
ee In urging1 a licensing system.
"Something has to be done to save
the dye Industry and tariff atone won't
OA it' he declared.